Ask Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko about Accelerate Long Island and you see a beaming sideline dad, the one whose kid just scored a goal. Others may wonder what’s taking the technological-development initiative so long to gain steam, but Lesko sees ...

Local investors and state legislators are at work on a pair of programs that would boost investment in Long Island startups needing a financial leg up. Which, of course, is most of them. The initiatives come as venture capital investment in New ...